Lana Del Rey confirms split from boyfriend – as she comes under fire for interview comments

Lana Del Rey has been spotted spending time with her family following her split from boyfriend Barrie-James O’Neill.

The 28-year-old singer was pictured in Paris with her parents and her sister as she tried to put her recent heartbreak behind her.

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Lana Del Rey pictured with her family in Paris on Monday

New York-born Lana confirmed the end of her three-year relationship earlier this week, in an interview with Switzerland”s 20 Minuten newspaper.

“We are currently not together,” she said of the Scottish musician, who now performs under the name Nightmare Boy. “He is a wonderful person. But there are some things with which he has to deal. I will not explain it in detail.

“This was hard on our relationship, I no longer felt free. We”ll see how it goes.”

Lana Del Rey has confirmed her split from boyfriend of three years Barrie-James O’Neill

Her comments came just a fortnight after Lana said of their romance, “We have a difficult road. He”s a very dark character.

“He has months on end where it”s a really dark stretch of writing and waiting. He has his total own world.”

Lana is having a difficult time of late. This week she came under fire for recent comments she made to the Guardian.

Lana Del Rey has come under fire for recent comments she made to the Guardian

The singer – real name Elizabeth Woolridge Grant – was quoted as saying she saw glamour in an early death. “I wish I was dead already,” she said. “I do! I don”t want to have to keep doing this. But I am.”

Lana took to Twitter to slam the “sinister” interviewer Tim Jonze for asking leading questions – he later posted audio from the interview to defend his article, and Lana”s tweets were deleted.

Among those to criticise Lana for her comments was Kurt Cobain”s daughter Frances Bean.

Frances, whose father killed himself at the age of 27 in 1994 when she was just eighteen months, has encouraged the singer to “embrace life” in a series of tweets.